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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FUN'NY, a. [from fun.] Droll; comical.
FUN'NY, n. A light boat.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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1: arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics" [syn: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible]
2: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular]
3: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious]
4: experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest" n
1: an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny" [syn: funny story, good story, funny remark, funny]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (funnier; -est) Date: 1756 1. a. affording light mirth and laughter ; amusing b. seeking or intended to amuse ; facetious 2. differing from the ordinary in a suspicious, perplexing, quaint, or eccentric way ; peculiar — often used as a sentence modifier <funny, things didn't turn out the way we planned> 3. involving trickery or deception <told his prisoner not to try anything funny> • funnily adverb • funniness noun • funny adverb II. noun (plural funnies) Date: 1852 1. one that is funny; especially joke 2. plural comic strips or the comic section of a periodical — usually used with the

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. (funnier, funniest) 1 amusing, comical. 2 strange, perplexing, hard to account for. 3 colloq. slightly unwell, eccentric, etc. --n. (pl. -ies) (usu. in pl.) colloq. 1 a comic strip in a newspaper. 2 a joke. Phrases and idioms: funny-bone the part of the elbow over which the ulnar nerve passes. funny business 1 sl. misbehaviour or deception. 2 comic behaviour, comedy. funny-face joc. colloq. an affectionate form of address. funny farm sl. a mental hospital. funny-ha-ha colloq. = sense 1 of adj. funny man a clown or comedian, esp. a professional. funny money colloq. inflated currency. funny paper a newspaper etc. containing humorous matter. funny-peculiar colloq. = senses 2, 3 of adj. Derivatives: funnily adv. funniness n. Etymology: FUN + -Y(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Funny Fun"ny, n.; pl. Funnies. A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Funny Fun"ny, a. [Compar. Funnier; superl. Funniest.] [From Fun.] Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(funnier, funniest, funnies) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Someone or something that is funny is amusing and likely to make you smile or laugh. Wade was smart and not bad-looking, and he could be funny when he wanted to... I'll tell you a funny story. = amusing, comical ADJ 2. If you describe something as funny, you think it is strange, surprising, or puzzling. Children get some very funny ideas sometimes!... There's something funny about him... It's funny how love can come and go. = odd, curious ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ how/that 3. If you feel funny, you feel slightly ill. (INFORMAL) My head had begun to ache and my stomach felt funny. ADJ: usu feel ADJ 4. The funnies are humorous drawings or a series of humorous drawings in a newspaper or magazine. (AM INFORMAL) N-PLURAL: the N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Comical, droll, farcical, ludicrous, sportive, humorous, laughable, diverting, amusing.

Moby Thesaurus

Attic, abnormal, absurd, amusing, anomalous, antic, biting, bizarre, brilliant, clever, comic, comical, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, curious, deviant, deviative, different, divergent, diverting, dotty, droll, eccentric, entertaining, erratic, exceptional, facetious, fantastic, farcical, fey, flaky, freaked out, freakish, freaky, grotesque, hilarious, humorous, humorsome, hysterical, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, incongruous, irregular, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, kinky, kooky, laughable, ludicrous, maggoty, merry, mordant, mysterious, mystifying, nimble-witted, nutty, odd, oddball, off, off the wall, out, outlandish, passing strange, peculiar, pointed, priceless, pungent, puzzling, quaint, queer, quick-witted, quirky, quizzical, rapier-like, remarkable, rich, ridiculous, risible, salt, salty, scintillating, screaming, screwball, screwy, sharp, singular, slapstick, smart, sparkling, sprightly, strange, twisted, unconventional, unearthly, unnatural, unusual, uproarious, wacky, waggish, weird, whimsical, witty, wondrous strange, zany